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For what it's worth, I happen to hate the "you don't listen to other things in the bible so lay off the gays" argument. It's irrelevant, and as someone with family members who take pains to follow every single commandment in the universe, it isn't an effective argument in a lot of places. Especially because the other examples of biblical bullshit are still very real problems, like the domestic violence and lack of fair wages that Mr. Black chose to include in this video. Same sex marriage is a separation of Church and State issue plain and simple, or an issue of equal protection, or even of sexism if you want to go there. But don't try to beat the bible thumpers at their own game, it's a truly stupid game to begin with.
(Musicals are generally a good tactic, though.)
2 comments:
you lost me with aligning fair wages and domestic violence with biblical teaching. it wouldn't surprise me to find it in there, but can i ask where out of quite a bit of curiosity?
The video references "selling ones wife into slavery" and "stoning one's daughter" as outdated biblical allowances. While Western culture does frown on these practices, their modern iterations, ie unfair wages and domestic abuse, are still rampant problems which are regularly laughed out of the justice system. There are perfectly unproblematic examples they could choose here, like working on the Sabbath or mixing fabrics, although I still think it'd be a dumb argument that way... it just strikes me as unhelpful to choose very real problems for throwaway lines in a musical.
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